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I wanted to know how do we access 2 machines which are in the same network.
I mean i have a Windows machine with some drives as shared and i wanna access those drives from my Linux box.
I have Fedora 3 (2.6.11) installed.
I wanted to know how do we access 2 machines which are in the same network.
I mean i have a Windows machine with some drives as shared and i wanna access those drives from my Linux box.
I have Fedora 3 (2.6.11) installed.
Vishal
to access them from your linux box you can use smbmnt //IP/share_name /mount/point
if the user name is the same you will only be prompted for a password, if not you will have to look into the options for adding the username=option.
you can also add a line to your fstab to make the mount automatic and happen on boot. i use the smbmount on my linux boxes all the time to gain access to my windows shares, but then i have the shares on the same user name on all the boxes. this is NOT the most secure way to do things, but for a home user i do not care. for a network that needs more security i use fstab with a .password file for security.
I was first trying to use nfs to share between two Linux Boxes and it worked well one way. I mean if i tried mounting my frnds hard drive, it worked well, but when he tried to mount my harddrive, it failed. We both followed the same steps and i dont knwo the possible reason for that getting falied.
When my frnd tried to mount my harddrive, the error message it gave was
:The network might be possible down
Any help wud be greatly appreciated. Would try using the Samba server once my Windoze machine is up
Originally posted by rickh Just marking this thread to help me find it later ... Thanks
maybe u won't be knowing this, i too found out this later
that if u want to follow a thread then u need not post a dumumy post so that u can track that later on instead u can subscribe to that thead by the subscribe option at the end of this page
Originally posted by gd2shoe There's a "subscribe to this thread" link at the bottom of the page (when you're logged in). It took me a while to notice it too.
hey i just mentioned the same thing in a coupe of posts above
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